El Sat, 9 May 2009 10:08:50 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com> escribió: > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:24 AM, "Vinzent Höfler" > <jellyfish.softw...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > > Actually, you should answer one simple question for yourself: If > > your life really depended on the system, would you still trust it? > > In that case we should all be very worried. Many critical systems out > there run on Windows - we as technical people know that Windows is not > the most stable platform out there. :-)
And many of those are written in visual basic: many years ago I saw a job ad on a newspaper requesting visual basic programmers for electromedical machines. I *am* worried. Not too long ago I saw on digg a photo of a scada controlling a nuclear plant. The scada was siemens' wincc[*]. Regardless of the fact that the error message was just complaining about the license, and a scada isn't actually controlling the plant, I am *very* worried. [*]a gigantic mess with a bazillon programs and dlls that nobody on earth could possibly know how they fit together, and with the final program badly scattered among so many different pieces you can't never be sure of what is doing. -- Luca _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
